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A parent is the best gift that God has granted you today. The excerpts of This Boy’s Life and The Other Wes Moore, talk about how different the parents were portrayed in the children’s lives. The parents are described differently like being hardworking, having faith, and difference in the family life style. On the other hand, the parents had some similarities like they all faced violence, difficulties in the leaving life style and the love and care towards their children. The two excerpts generally show how these two families went through difficulties most especially violence from their husbands however, both had parents most especially the mothers worked so hard in life so that they could be able to make their children happy.
To begin with the differences, in This Boy’s Life, the mother of Toby was terrified and afraid over the boyfriend who was so violent to her. She then decided to move away from him going far away where he could not find her. Wolf said that “It was 1955 and we were driving from Florida to Utah, to get away from a man …show more content…
Firstly, both parents are described as hard workers most especially the mothers. The mothers were the ones who took full responsibility of the children and also showing them the right direction to take. Wolf said that his mother went into mining so that they could be able to get money. He also said that she was planning to compensate for all the time lost when they reached to Utah. (2) This shows me that the mother was so much determined to work much harder than she used to do it. Additionary, The Other Wes Moore clearly shows how the mother of Wes taught the discipline of never hit a woman. Moore stated clearly that “I told you never put your hands on a woman.”(1) Strongly this states that in one way or the other these two excerpts were similar depending on how the parents were
A parent is the best gift that God has granted you today. The excerpts of This Boy’s Life and The Other Wes Moore, talk about how different the parents were portrayed in the children’s lives. The parents are described differently like being hardworking, having faith, and difference in the family life style. On the other hand, the parents had some similarities like they all faced violence, difficulties in the leaving life style and the love and care towards their children. The two excerpts generally show how these two families went through difficulties most especially violence from their husbands however, both had parents most especially the mothers worked so hard in life so that they could be able to make their children happy.
To begin with the differences, in This Boy’s Life, the mother of Toby was terrified and afraid over the boyfriend who was so violent to her. She then decided to move away from him going far away where he could not find her. Wolf said that “It was 1955 and we were driving from Florida to Utah, to get away from a man …show more content…
Firstly, both parents are described as hard workers most especially the mothers. The mothers were the ones who took full responsibility of the children and also showing them the right direction to take. Wolf said that his mother went into mining so that they could be able to get money. He also said that she was planning to compensate for all the time lost when they reached to Utah. (2) This shows me that the mother was so much determined to work much harder than she used to do it. Additionary, The Other Wes Moore clearly shows how the mother of Wes taught the discipline of never hit a woman. Moore stated clearly that “I told you never put your hands on a woman.”(1) Strongly this states that in one way or the other these two excerpts were similar depending on how the parents were